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A Day at Disney's Wedding Pavilion: Cashing In on the Disneyfication of Love

There's something really, really, really disturbing about this.  Something that says chump and cheap, yet is magically garish simultaneously.   I hate it.  I hate that Disney is cashing in-- yet again- -on their contrived and manipulated notions of romance even further than they've already cashed in on it and what they've already spoon fed to mold tender minds on what love is as well as on what 'true love' consists of.  It makes me vomit a little in my mouth.  I hate it almost as much as shitty overpriced white dresses with 'Disney Princesses' names on them to get touted as 'special collections' to make you into yet another walking cash cow while you embark on your fantastic suburban fantasy of heterosexual bliss in virginal white even though your hymen broke at 13 during a family reunion just so your rug-rats can nurse from the same poisonous rat posed as mouse teat as you did because you obviously turned out absolutely fine.   Truly, a...

Can We Ever ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW? ***SPOILERS***

I will admit that I fell asleep at some point while watching Escape From Tomorrow, but not due to its lack of appeal, it was due to exhaustion, and quite frankly if I sit down for any extended period of time in a dimly lit room, I will most definitely probably fall asleep.  Which is partly why I would actually like to see Escape From Tomorrow for a second time.  The other part being, it’s actually just a really decent avant-garde and thought provoking film. When first finding out about writer-director Randy Moore’s debut of an exclusively American fantasy-psychological horror film, I could not help but be all sorts of intrigued, particularly by where Moore chose to film – on location at both Walt Disneyland and Walt Disney World, without getting consent from The Disney Corporation.     The few online reviews I had initially all read or seen were from the male perspective only (and as of yet, it still remains to have been read or seen – any type of revie...

The Commercial Sexualization of Children: 'Corporate Pedophilia'

Literally feeling sick to my stomach presently as to what I'm witnessing lately and I have to share it because it's truly disturbing. Over the weekend I stumbled onto this article  which outlined a French designer's defense of her lingerie line aimed at 4-12 year old girls.  A slide show of the adverts can be found   here.     At least the adverts purportedly contributed to France outlawing child beauty pageants.     But in the United States?--hey, we barely think about JonBenet Ramsey much less talk about why what happened to her, happened to her, unfortunately so long ago. (JonBenet) Instead we now love to hate Honey Boo-Boo and ogle at "Toddlers & Tiaras". (Honey Boo-Boo) I'd choke on my 'freedom fries' if the American Senate looked to the French Senate as an ethical example to set a new standard, allowing little girls to remain unsexualized, but sadly, I know that day--if ...